From: BMSDGATH <BMSDGATH@livjm.ac.uk>
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Subject: Re: RE: Papers critical of memetics
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 14:38:52 -0500 (EST)
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999 10:06:15 -0000 I.Price@shu.ac.uk wrote:
> Derek
> >
> >> 2a. What is the best example of a cultural phenomenon in which the meme
> >> concept is necessary to explain it?
>
> >Contagious suicide, I'd say (see Paul's article).
>
> How do you reconcile suicide with Dawkins A rather than Dawkins B?
Suicide is a behaviour.
Derek
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